Yifei Ming is a Research Scientist at Salesforce AI, focusing on trustworthy AI agents. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Ph. D. in Computer Science, his expertise lies in Large Language Models (LLMs), Vision-Language Models (VLMs), and AI safety, aiming to improve model robustness and reasoning.
Outside of his research, Yifei enjoys spending his free time outdoors. He has a passion for both traveling to new places and hiking, which allows him to explore different environments and landscapes away from the lab.
He co-developed FaithEval, a benchmark of nearly 5, 000 questions designed to test if LLMs provide answers that are faithful to the given context.
Yifei Ming
Research Scientist at Salesforce
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Overview
Topics They Care About
AI Trust & Safety
His research focuses on improving the contextual faithfulness and distributional robustness of AI models, exemplified by his work on the FaithEval benchmark.
Multimodal AI Models
He has extensive experience with both Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and document pretraining from his research internships at Microsoft and Adobe.
AI Reasoning Skills
His past work involved enhancing the spatial and mathematical reasoning capabilities of large language models through visual instruction tuning.
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Work History
5-2024
Research Scientist at Salesforce
5-2023 - 8-2023
Research Intern at Microsoft
5-2022 - 8-2022
Research Intern at Adobe
Education
5-2019 - 5-2024
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Location : Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Designation : Research Scientist at Salesforce
